Suggested script for calls:
Begin with your name and the city and state where you live. Tell them all:“Stop the so-called ‘welfare’ checks in the SHU at Pelican Bay State Prison. Sleep deprivation is torture.”

Send emails to CA elected officials:Click this link from Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) to email the message to STOP the ‘checks’! http://tinyurl.com/ztjcos3

Towards Liberation! After 40 days, Palestinians suspend mass hunger strike in Israeli prisons-UPDATE: New details released on agreement to suspend Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike Read here http://samidoun.net/2017/05/breaking-palestinian-prisoners-suspend-hunger-strike-after-40-days-of-struggle/ May 26, 2017 — After 40 days of hunger strike, Palestinian prisoners have suspended their hunger strike and announced that they have achieved victory in their humanitarian demands, following 20 hours of negotiations between the strikers’ leadership and Israeli occupation prison […]

PRISONERS UNITED OF SILICON VALLEY Newsletter #1-Link to full newsletter: http://tinyurl.com/gwhq2hp PRISONERS UNITED OF SILICON VALLEY ▼ December 22, 2016 – Newsletter 1 – LETTER OF APPRECIATION – Greetings and solidarity to each other and all who participated in our initial Hunger Strike to end the arbitrary use of solitary confinement and inhumane treatment in Santa Clara County Jails. Before we […]

Report back from Prisoner Representatives’ first monitoring meeting with CDCR-published by the Center for Constitutional Rights May 23, 2016 By Todd Ashker Last September, in Ashker v. Governor of California, California prisoners reached an historic settlement agreement with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) that is bringing an end to indefinite solitary confinement in California prisons. The Settlement Agreement includes hard-won (and […]

PHOTOS and REPORTBACKS from Rally Against the Torture of Prisoners-On February 1, 2016, people from all over California gathered in Sacramento at the headquarters of the CA Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCr) to demand an end to the dangerous and deliberate sleep deprivation being inflicted on the people in solitary in Pelican Bay State Prison SHU, under the guise of “welfare checks”. Before […]

Summary of Settlement Terms in Ashker v. Brown (Governor of California)-from Center for Constitutional Rights, outlined summary is below background info When Ashker v. Brown (Governor of California) was filed as a class action in 2012, California held thousands of prisoners in solitary confinement, in Security Housing Units (SHU). Hundreds of these prisoners had been isolated for decades. They spent nearly 24-hours-per-day in cramped cells, […]